“A fertile mind may still produce many weeds.”

“We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference.”

“Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.”

“Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.”

“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”

“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete, ”

“Despite everything you’ve tried over the years, isn’t it a fact that your mind still produces unpleasant pictures?”