As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.

You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up.

A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

Tension is the great integrity.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.