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

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

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

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?

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.