Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.

Everything is mended by the soil.

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.

There must be a sense of urgency before anything can ever happen.

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ...

Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.

Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.

Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return therefore, everything that you want is already yours. It is simply becoming more aware of what you already possess.

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.