Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.

Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.

Productive writing begins from understanding the idea.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

Don't get mad. Get everything. - (on divorce).

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.