Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.

If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!

Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

What are you doing with life God has given you?

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.