Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?