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

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

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

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.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

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