When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

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 light is shinning in every dark place.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

We have a job to do. After the fight, I'll love him.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.