Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

A determined soul and indomitable spirit are necessary for any achievement.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

I got country music in me.