A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

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.

When you’re dying, even your unhappiest memories can induce a sort of fondness, as if delight is not confined to the good times, but is woven through your days like a skein of gold thread.

All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.

Most politicians have to find a way past that allergy. They have to find a way to go door to door, person to person, or else they don't win.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

One who loves his own Self loves the whole world.

Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.