The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we’ve said all along, is just to coach ’em up.

Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.

Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.