“Everything is mended by the soil.”

“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 ...”

“Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.”

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

“Tyrants don't become a success.They become obsessed!”

“Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!”

“The source of desire to be driven by power and spread of influence makes its owner dangerous to its privileges, as it not only transforms the people who are beholden to its master, but as well crea...”

“Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has ...”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”