If you're WONDERING what I mean by 'miracle,' it's simple: a miracle is a shift in PERSPECTIVE from fear to LOVE. A miracle can be the MOMENT you choose to forgive your ex-lover and let go of decades of RESENTMENT, or the moment you recognize that losing your job was not a tragedy but an opportunity to follow your true calling.

The ENVIRONMENT was so STRONG, so DRAMATIC. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.

After having struggled through some close friends' and family MEMBERS' BATTLES with cancer, I wanted to CREATE an AMERICAN drama about the experience of TRAGEDY and memory.

A TRAGEDY NEED not have blood and DEATH; it's ENOUGH that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Tragedy WITHOUT COMEDY is melodrama, and comedy without a higher PURPOSE is vacant.

The Swedish winters and summers hold the most enduring MEMORIES for me. Now, when I am back in Stockholm in November, it is difficult to IMAGINE being able to SKI to school. I THINK that is a tragedy.

It does no good to BELIEVE in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is REAL. That would be the GREATEST TRAGEDY of any 'conspiracy.'

The basic FACT about human EXISTENCE is not that it is a TRAGEDY, but that it is a BORE. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Greek PHILOSOPHY seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not SUPPOSED to meet, namely, a DULL ENDING.

I am ALWAYS AWARE that I've had a SPECIAL and PRIVILEGED life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.

Our PLANET is dying. Whales will be extinct before we ever GET to know them. They say these creatures are so intelligent. They MAY disappear from the face of the EARTH before we know them, and that is a great TRAGEDY.

On September 11, 2001, AMERICA SUFFERED an unimaginable tragedy and witnessed the incredible HEROISM of hundreds of first responders who rushed into the World Trade CENTER to SAVE lives.

You GET TRAGEDY where the TREE, INSTEAD of bending, BREAKS.