The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

If Christ is missing from your life, it isn’t because He is lost.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.

And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways ((You and I Both))

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.