My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all.....not by force, but by grace.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties.

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.