Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.

I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules.

Harmony would only come with destruction.

I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.

Inside my soul a treasure is buried.The key is mine and only mine.How right you are, you drunken monster!I know: the truth is in the wine.("The Unknown Lady")

Our lives are never certain even for an hour.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.

Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God!

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.