Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

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 is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

My chains are broken. I am free in Christ.

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.

We are drawn to greatness because there's something about the greatness in others that speaks to us about our own possibilities.

Your true character in life is your destiny.

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.