I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

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.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

What happens if I do nothing?

You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.