It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

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.

Before you can act you must choose. Before you can choose you must know. Before you can know you must feel. And before you can feel you must be trained.

You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.

We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small.

I would love to be in Kansas.