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

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

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

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.

It’s your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

I was emotionally scarred we could not get it away

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

Fraternity has subtleties.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

I'm a talker. I don't bottle things up. I always call my mum or a close girlfriend and try to talk things out.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.

If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.