Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.

If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!

Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.

Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.

Happiness is not limited. There’s enough for everyone.