marriage is a great strain upon love.

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 man irritated her just like a rash.

Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?

Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

No one remembers who came in second.