There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

Only positive thoughts can inspire you to positive actions.

Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.

What is the essence of having a brain if you cannot question the things you hear or see?

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I love him Ginny... and in love, there is no fear.