Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.