To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

feed ur destiny and not ur history. stop dwelling on your disappoinments but prepare for your Appointments

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.