In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.