That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.