There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

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.

How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? I imagine it was some weird marketing meeting over in France.

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.