A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

I think that it’s not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else’s, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it’s really not that.

I’m not looking for self-control.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.