The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.