It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life is the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.