I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

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.

The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.

There's a transparent face that looks deep into my eyes, baring my soul, right before terror consumes me and the image becomes a black mass of horror.

You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself.

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve.

We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!