Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.

To get to that goal, you've got to take care of the first obstacle in your path. We need to use that to help motivate us to reach our ultimate goal.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

My mom lived off the canal of a river, ... It looked like a bomb went off. I never thought it was going to be that bad. I stayed the night (in Texas), then Monday morning after the storm had gone more up north, we went back thinking it was okay. It took us a long time because of all the traffic that was leaving. Normally, it would take an hour, but it took six hours because of all the evacuees. It took a good 11 or 12 hours to get to Texas, and it usually only takes five.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.