I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Within the 24 hours, make some time for your own work.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

You hurt me. It’s OK. I just want you to be happy.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.