... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

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.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.