Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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.

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

...the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.

Always follow your passion to be successful.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?