Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.