Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.