A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Bertrand Russell

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Ernest Hemingway

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

In soft regions are born soft men.

Herodotus

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp

Terry Pratchett

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

Andy Garcia

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Erica Jong

The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

John Steinbeck

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

David Suzuki

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us

John Updike