Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

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.

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

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

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