All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.