If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

You don't ask nobody to give what they can't give, or be what they can't be. You've learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.

I don't need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that's what I've chosen to do.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

Willem Dafoe is a shithead.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.