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

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.

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

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

Be the master of your life.

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

Build a tangled bank.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.