There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

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.

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.