Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there.

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable.

Love is a contradiction... Jace to Clary

Your life is your song, sing it loud!

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'