One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

Dedication to God will make you like a magnet in your sphere of influence

It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Katherine Heigl, she was exactly the opposite of what I thought she'd be like. She smokes cigarettes, or she did then, and she's got a truck-driver's mouth, and she's really funny.

The worst of lusts is vanity.

You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.