In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

Being loved is the only thing that is admirable by any stretch of the imagination.

He sleeps for himself and dreams for others.

Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw his water eyes.

I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.

Some people are more nice than wise.