A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?