Family is everything!” he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. “If you don’t have family, what do you have?

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?

LOOK AT HIM! Mum, LOOK! OUR NEW DOG! ISN’T HE A BEAUTY?”“Another DOG!” came Maia’s amazed voice.

Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.

Better to accept whatever happens.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.