If there is no gardener there is no garden. Stephen R. Covey, First things First

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joesph Conrad, “Carnival of Wit”

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost, “The Death of a Hired Man”

All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer. Sir Robert Owen

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p.318 Houghton Mifflin

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Tom Wilson, from comic strip “Ziggy”