“Great leaders, and great gardeners, resist the temptation to micromanage. They know that flowers cannot grow if you keep jerking them out of the ground to check the roots.”
--Rodger Dean Duncan
“If you stand for a reason, be prepared to stand alone like a tree, and if you fall on the ground, fall like a seed that grows back to fight again.”
--Unknown
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.”
--Alice Walker
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.”
--Charlotte Brontë