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

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

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.

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

I only fear danger where I want to fear it.

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.

Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.