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.

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.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

The house appointed for all living.

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Isaiah taught me that the Lord is very persistent with his people.

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.