“Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.”

“But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”

“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.”

“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”

“People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.”

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

“Too many people believe that they have to wait until they are wealthy to follow their passion, when in fact, it will be their passion that will make them wealthy.”

“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.”

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”