There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.