The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

Your marriage, " Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job."He went straight to bed.

Philosophers think, creators make!

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

I am not accustomed to protocol.

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

The contact of two epidermises.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.