“There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!”

“Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!”

“To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!”

“The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!”

“If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!”

“The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!”

“Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell!”