My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

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.

Religiousity is unself glory not purity

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it - no matter what.

This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.