Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks he thinks as he lives.

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

There are only two emotions - Fear and Love. Go with Love.