Travelers should only read after dark.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.

A little revolution is a good thing.