Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

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.

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.

We create words, words create wonders.

Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.

Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

We only make the mistakes that we have to make to learn what we're here to learn right now.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'

He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.