Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.

What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.

I'd die of a broken heart before breaking yours.

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia.

A small mind can never have a big result, for whatever you cannot see, you cannot have

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

The less people know, the more they yell.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -