Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

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.

Not seeing is half-believing.

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.

Life in the Kingdom of God is accepting and knowing Jesus Christ, it is studying and applyingHis teachings to your life.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.