Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

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.

We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up

Praying is pleasure pursuit.

No two people see things the same.

I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.