Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.

When you love others unconditionally and care for others endlessly, you create a blissful life.

You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right