The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Neversay more than is necessary.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.