"Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants."

“Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.”

“Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.”

“This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.”

Source : Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.241, Hachette UK

“It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.”

“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.”

Source : Ann Hood (2013). “The Obituary Writer: A Novel”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

“The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.”

“Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.”