Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

It was OK to need people

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.

When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened