Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

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.

Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.

Become your own success story, not someone else's.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

Winning was everything. I don’t care what they tell you.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

I've never lost my love for acting. I feel really at home on the movie set. I'm a more balanced person honestly when I'm working.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The great soul of this world is just.