Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.