It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

When you decide to become consistent, you are telling yourself that 'I will never make another excuse again.' You have to commit to it, and most importantly believe in yourself.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

To fully enjoy life, to derive its greatest meaning and beauty, one needs to enter into it with not only the look of involvement and happiness, but the spirit of involvement as well.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.