It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

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.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

All the answers you seek in life. It is hidden a book.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.