A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

The garden that is finished is dead.

Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.

Everybody who was involved in that culture [Wells Fargo] should be held accountable.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.