It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there..

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses..

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy..

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation..

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail..

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence..

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places..

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it..

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it..

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance..

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me..

Am I keeping my promises?.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter..

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are..

Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path..

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties..

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage..

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason..

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all..

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody..

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted..