I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Not seeing is half-believing.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

You need to trust God so you can trust others.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

Books which are no books.

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.