The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.

Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

Microeconomists are wrong about specific things and macroeconomists are wrong about things in general!

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.