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

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.

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

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.

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

Convert your time into fulfilling your purpose.

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?