We can never flee the misery that is within us.

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.

One sure way to excel in life, be fabulous and fantastic is to know your fears and deal with them with fierce.

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.

Love is strong as death jealousy is cruel as the grave.

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

The best way to dream is with your eyes open and feet moving