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

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.