“keep bees and grow asparagus.listen to the windinstead of the politicians,make up your own storiesand believe them if you want to livethe good life”

“If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician.”

“Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.”

“Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.”

“if you wanted special things to happen in your life, then you had to damn well get up of your own backside and make them happen yourself.”

“If you want to keep growing, you have to challenge everything. Even your own thinking and beliefs.”