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

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

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.

An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

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

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.