It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

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.

People shouldn’t be ashamed of what they are. And it will help them, to gain self esteem and confidence.

Healing does not take place in the fast lane.

If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.