Purple has always been my favorite color. I don’t need to wait until I am old to wear it.

Moving up in the world is an aspiration and for some, all absorbing.

Architect César Pelli, who designed some of the world’s tallest buildings, observed: “The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.”

There is no need to ramp up for the harvest if it is wild leeks that you seek.

American Chef and restaurateur Tom Colicchio shared this bit of food wisdom.

Poet William Wordsworth is known to have held daffodils dear, but they were not his favorite flower.