I've always thought my flowers had souls.

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.

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.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.

Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.

Rome was not built in a day.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

Music is a potent energy force.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart