The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.