Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, " says Zoroaster.

Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.

Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.