It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

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.

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.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.