When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

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.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

Purpose is the ultimate reason for your existence.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Violence is my last option.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

Wives should be kissed - not heard.