Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

Let nature be in your yard.

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

Do not be sorrow in the storm. Let the joy of Lord be your strength to smile.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.