Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

Dreams are manifestation of the reality.

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

I want to make sure that everyone knows, God has been my greatest quarterback and I've caught a lot more than 84 touchdowns with Him!