Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
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.
Time your actions so you’re not fighting against the currents but moving with them.
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist’s world.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they’ve simply heard of.
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.