Gossip is the social mosquito.

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.

I like that girl more than I can remember likin’ anything in my life. I’m not about to give her up. I’ll start carin’ about what other people think when I’m six feet under.

What the advertisements are telling us on TV is not the truth. Life is not about comfort.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.