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.

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.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me.

I'm up early 'cuz ain't enough light in the daytime

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.