Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

Good listening places us on an edifice of learning complex human behavior.

I believe, given enough time, all of engineering will move to paradigms based on the biological cell.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

The ninos santos (Psilocybe mexicana) heal. They lower fevers, cure colds, and give freedom from toothaches. They pull the evil spirits out of the body or free the spirit of the sick.