Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Believe in God is the boldness of being.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Women critics are amazons in climax.

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.