Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

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

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

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.