No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

Convenience will put you out of business!

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

A true marketplace is a treasure of long tail products.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

If you look at the new places opening, they're quite gutsy, earthy places.