She was wrapped in my jacket, almost swallowed by it. You never realize how small a woman is until she wears your clothes.

Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.

We are all temporary visitors on earth, and we owe it to ourselves to never let any negative condition distract us from the beauty of life.

Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'