One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

I am catastrophically in love with you.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

There is more to living than not dying, " he said. "Look at the way you live, Will. You burn as bright as a star.

Feelings and emotionran through my veinslike a hurricane.And that's when everythingbegan to look like poetry.—You look like poetry

I never do anything by chance.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.

I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.