Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'

It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.