“Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.”

“Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

“When a good change is flowing towards you, don’t stand like the river stones before it!”

“The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.”

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

“A man's destiny is not written in stone, but in water.”