Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

The garden that is finished is dead.

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean.

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.