Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.

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 ...

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

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

An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

We've got to stop this making fun of guys. I think part of it's to protect [Barack] Obama, because he's the one that's well known for that.

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.