It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

It is a good life, if you're doing what you like doing.

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

What do I and a diamond have in common? We are tough, brilliant, and carbon based entities which evolved into something better under immense pressure, tribulation, and trials.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

I want to do everything in the world with you.

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

The job of the artist is to point at things.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.