There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

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.

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.

Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.

Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired. His arm can’t be repaired. He will always be broken because of me.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.