If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

I've got the perfect dress. It's going to knock your socks off."Marcus wasn't sure if that was good or bad, but he couldn't wait to find out.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

A life without LOVE isn’t a life.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.