A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

It is much more challenging to accept those who know a lot than those who know little.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

The best time to laugh is anytime you can.