In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but making time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind

You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.

The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.