We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.

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

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