Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

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.

The one who runs from his shadows sleeps with the devil at night.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.