Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

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.

With a well-organized life, you have a higher chance of success and excellence in your area of calling and whatever you find yourself doing.

Trends of the times be damned.

In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

Nothing tortures your enemies more than seeing you walk with a smile of confidence on your face.

Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Don't die with your music still inside.