My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

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 social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

If building a disruptive, dynamic brand is not in your plans, neither is profit.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.