Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

This is going to be one of the finest bonsai gardens in North America, if not the world. Bonsai is so relevant to what we are, and our mission of connecting people with plants. It's a very traditional art form, but it's a very energetic art form, and we are at the forefront in design and the use of natural plants.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

Leadership inaction: ATM Management - Acquiescence to Mediocrity.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.