"From myself I am copper, through you,..." - Quote by Rumi

“Appear as you are, or be as you appear.”

“You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.”

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

“True friends are families which you can select.”

“... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.”

“The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.”

“I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.”

“Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.”

“People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.”