Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.