... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

we're lost where the mind can't find usutterly lost

People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.

Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.