Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

It’s easy to sing the song, but to pray the lyrics from deep within… that’s worship!

What you reject cannot be effective for you

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

A hated government does not long survive.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.