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.

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?

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.

Love is transcendent. It knows not of time nor space. It exist between 'us' for 'us.' Love and be loved. ~ Always ~

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Peyton Manning is a true leader. A legend. I love the way he is always in control. You never see him too frustrated, never see him too happy.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks