I believe politics is the peaceable resolution of conflict among legitimate competing interests. And I don't know, in a nation as big and brawling, this great continent which we occupy, and diverse as ours, how we would resolve our differences, except through the commitment, the passion, the intelligence, the courage of those who are willing to practice the political process and achieve compromise.

Mark Shields on politics and politicians for PBS

“I think a lot about next year, but I also think, absolutely, about what it’s going to be like when I am dead,” he said. The future promised by a garden may not always be ours to enjoy, but a future there will be, with or without us in it.

Tom Stuart-Smith in Rebecca Mead's The Therapeutic Power of Gardening