If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

The harder I worked, the luckier I got.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.