Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

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.

Your voice falls on my ears like a rhapsody on a lonely shore.Perhaps like a molten metal which I gulp down thirstily and it soothes my throat with the warmth and freezes when it reaches my heart.

Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it’s loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.