It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang - it is an ongoing process.

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.