Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.

I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests.

Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.

My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.

I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.

If you really want to do something, you will.If not now, Eventually.

The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.

When I was 66, my wife June died of cancer. Two years later--a year and a half ago--I married Kristen McMain, the eternal companion who now stands at my side.

Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.