Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind

The stands of aspen up here are the biggest living thing on the planet—who’d have thought? Acres of aspen share the same underground artery and vein system, their DNA identical. Branches of this lollygagging übervegetable are all rooted as one

The root of war is fear

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow

The root of suffering is attachment.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man

When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.

We communists are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots

They say the money’s the root of all evil, I say, ‘I need some money just to see if it’s true.