It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.
Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.
The best things arrive on time.
We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.
will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.