"I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere."

“The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.”

“You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.”

“Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr

“A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1731). “Some account of the life and writings of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.305

“Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously”

“You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.”

“The ability of the countries within the region to cooperate and establish good-neighborly relations ... will be an important criterion for evaluating their prospects of full integration with the European Union,”

“The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.”