I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

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.

For every survivor there is also a rapist.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

I don't want your future, I don't need your past. One bright moment Is all I ask.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

In the NFL, everyone's attacking, so you have to be quicker in your decisions.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

The finest poetry was first experience.