No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

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.

Anger gets me going.Hope sustains me.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.

The best gig is the one you've got.

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.