[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

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.

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

The moment when man acquires maximum knowledge is his LAST breath... You never know whats the truth

Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.