Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

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.

The view from the mountaintop is reserved for the uncommon man.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.

I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.