I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.