I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child as an eight- or nine-year-old asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels and I would say 'What does that mean?'

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior but then anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

And I came back and it was great 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band you know.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy I slogged through the Ardennes and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

To me flowers are happiness.

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep left there to dream of their happiness.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

For happiness one needs security but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.