You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

Their wedding night was at a little hotel in Paris. There were walk up steps and a lovely view. And all was well for these two.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

My problems aren't big but it doesn't necessarily take a big problem to kill me.

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.