Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

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.

It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.

To become a work of art is the object of living.

I thought I can throw away all my memories but whenever I tell my mind to do it, memories stick it more...!!

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits

I have embraced the positive resolution certainly not to entertain any discouragement

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

How can I go out there and create value?