For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.