The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

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.

The world seems to have certain criteria with which it judges the value of people.

Life is a playground and a laboratory

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.