Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

Conversion, constant conversion, is the message of the Gospel.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Who really needs a new album from me?

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.