Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

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.

War is a pleasant name of Mass Murder

When the beauty and warmth of summer is here, then dancing leaves with colors are not too far.

Don't work for appraisal or appreciation, work for your personal growth

The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.