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.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

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

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

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.