One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

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.

Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.