Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

We all do fade as a leaf.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.