“I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”

“With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth… But we as gardeners, must beware… for some seeds are the seeds of ruin… and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous”

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

“If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.”

“Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.”

“No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

“I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how
wonderful it was.”

“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”

“How proud he would have felt […] to have seen those seeds germinate into a Muslim nation, a Land of the Pure. How it would have broken his heart to see that Land of the Pure become a medieval theocracy and then rip itself apart in tribal factionalism. The Word of God prophecies from the barrel of an AK47.”

“We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls … Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born in us. We cannot root it out. All that we can do — at best — is to prevent it from germinating.”