"Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you."

“The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve”

“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”

“As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.”

“It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”

“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.308, David R. Godine Publisher

“Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.”

Source : John Galsworthy (2016). “The Man of Property”, p.6, Open Road Media

“In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.”

Source : Kamisese Mara (1977). “Selected speeches”

“My mission is healing, pure and simple.”