Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Silence always gives consent.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

For me, it´s sloth, " I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Love is a skill you learn.

Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.