Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a two dimensional character. I want more to my legacy, I guess.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.