Today my husband said to me: "If I couldn't garden at all, I would still compost."

"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." ~ Julia Child

Our government, national and state, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit." ~ Teddy Roosevelt

A man dies and leaves his camels to his 3 sons - The eldest gets half, the middle gets a third, and the youngest gets 1/9th. The man has 17 camels.

The three sons try to divide the 17 camels, but are unable to do so. 17 does not divide by 2, 3 or 9.

They go to a wise woman for help on settling the estate. She says that she cannot help them but says she will give them her camel.

Now the three sons have 18 camels. The eldest takes 9. The middle takes 6, and the youngest takes 2 camels.

There is one camel left over and the three sons give that camel back to the wise woman.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frederic Bastiat, 'The Law' (1850)

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." ~ Mark Twain

The death of the heart is the saddest thing that can happen to you.

"Good actions gives strength to ourselves & inspire good actions in others." ~ Plato

"Let him that would move the world first move himself." ~ Socrates

"The time is always right to do what is right." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." ~ Thomas Jefferson

“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” ~ Mark Twain

A goal without a plan is just a wish

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

"If you're going through hell, keep going." ~ Winston Churchill

"The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out” ~ Oscar Wilde

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." ~ Albert Einstein

"Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of being aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them." ~ Mingyur Rinpoche

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.