It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.