If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.