I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.
Work alone qualifies us for life.
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need. . .
No one can ever help loving anyone.
The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.
Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr. 's idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.
Every happening is a lesson, a message.
In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.
Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?