A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

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.

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

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

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Lord, speak not what I am wanting to hear, but speak what you want to say. For what you say, is truly what I need to hear.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

A lot of people don't realize that wrestling is acting; you're playing a role and a part.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

You beat Cancer by how you live.