Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

It is a good life, if you're doing what you like doing.

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

He wrapped his arms around me and planted a kiss straight on my lips, hard and long. It felt like I was watching the kiss instead of being inside of it.

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world.