An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

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

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.