All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

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.

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--alone, waiting for the things that stay.

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.

With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

Woman is the root of all evil.

God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.