When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in.
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
You won't take risk without courage.
Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.