Sadness was a very heavy thing.

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.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

To be honest I always have to say no one is guiding me better than God

The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

My helmet is off; I'm not afraid anymore.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

Success depends on our using, and not opposing.