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.

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.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.

These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

family relationships have made me so ill!

It's not the critic that counts.