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

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.

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

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?

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.

Go ahead, let them judge you.

When you look at the beautiful sunset, you feel as if you are falling in love. Maybe all over again.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.

You got to get it while you can.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Get out and about. Rather than going to the same gym and doing the same thing, it's a good opportunity to try different things.