It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows.

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

I'm sweetly broken, wholly surrendered.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

Little things are great to little men.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.