“Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.”

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”

“The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

“The garden is a raging sea,
The hurricane is snarling;
Oh, happy you and happy me!
Isn't the lightning darling?”

“One must dare to be happy.”

“To be happy--one must find one's bliss”

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”