I cooked at the White House for Easter last year with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there and they were really charming it was great.

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing dance or tell jokes does he?

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

And trust yes which is important but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people and with that desire to get things as good as possible I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Traditionally scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given ' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded in certain circles as a kind of hallmark of true science.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

We must not however be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention disregarded also the humane aspiration.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is was and shall be.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it but you can't prove that there aren't any so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations from the state down to the village garden club end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

In science a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity whereas in religion having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.