“There is one rule in the garden that is above all others.”

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

Scottish Theatre’s greatest success story of recent times.

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back.

Patience is not a virtue!

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

The term biodynamics – push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn’t matter a bit.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

I’m not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‘One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.’ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

One may be humble out of pride.

You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.

It’s a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it’s like… to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.