I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

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

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

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.