We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

If you don't need God to pull off what you are planning, you are not dreaming big enough.

True originator, innovator and creator, Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.