Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

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 a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.

Scale yourself. Go beyond what you can do and what you know. Look at your content machine and make it work nonstop, seamlessly, and at scale with or without you.

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.