Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

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.

You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.

You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith hardly ever.

Conquered, we conquer.

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.

What if everyone goes on the endless road Sooner or later Over the clouds to the sky Be sure to wait for me. And then, we will talk away About our countless memories.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.