It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries.