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.

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

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.