Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

My relationship with fans is based off the love of my work and my work ethic.