If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

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.

As the state of mind, as the efficiency. Time is only a relative factor

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.