Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

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.

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.

Dream big. Wake up. Take the first step into the unknown.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Don't try to be perfect. Do the best you can. Enlist help!

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

Now, the people of Florida can't stand him [Marci Rubio]. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.