There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

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.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

I'm really quiet at home. I don't speak that much. However, when I'm in public, I make sure to speak to everyone.

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.

Fargo is one of my favorite movies.