A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.