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 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'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.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone

Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.