We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

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.

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?

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.