Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.

If you love no one, no one can hurt you, ” she whispered.

I have a strong tennis arm.

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.