"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

"Wisdom principle 41 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 78."

"It is a quiet truth that kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 76 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 99."

"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"

"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."

"The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."