A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.