I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.