when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

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.

There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.