But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

You have to get lost before you can be found.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.