[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

It is romantic, yes, ’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

If I can succeed in saving only a single soul I can be sure that my own will be saved.

D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

I have tried to make sure I knew the law and what the most recent changes were, and I've applied the law to the facts. I have not lost sleep over the decisions I have made.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.