Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.