You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

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.

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

I am a big David Bowie fan.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.