After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

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