Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

You need to make effort and commit time to do what you love.

I believe that destiny, and anything that is truly meant to be, will always find a way to right itself.

She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.

We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism.

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years worth of graduates behind me.

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.