I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

Like a speeding trainI am passing by...I don’t knowwhere I’m headingwith whom or whyall I know is thatI will never, everpass from here againall I know is I’m skidding forwardon this track of life.

I should never have allowed you to kiss me." "Saints, Shona." Could she not see that he cared for her? 'Twas not as if he merely wanted beneath her skirts. She had stolen his heart.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

Baseball is just my job.

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

Not everything has to be immediate.