Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

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.

To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.

...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.JOURNALIST. And your plans.PLAYER. To play!

In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e, ' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.

The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

Fifteen dollar too beaucoup. Five dollars each... Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.