A lot of me is very up and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

During the Cold War we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Writing has laws of perspective of light and shade just as painting does or music. If you are born knowing them fine. If not learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

If a window of opportunity appears don't pull down the shade.

With Ricky Gervais it's all shades of wrong it's my kind of humor.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.