... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

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.

True success is the soundness of being.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.

The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.