If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.

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.

Remember it is not you who supports the root, but the root that supports you.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Let me arise and open the gate, / to breathe the wild warm air of the heath.