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

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

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.

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

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.

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

It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!