When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone

Front grace in the shadows

I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

Don’t strive to be superior to others

Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed.

The best adventures tend to start unexpectedly, and end unexpectedly too.

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?