I want to love my living

You have not traveled enough, " she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.

Do not seek recognition or gratification from man — serve the Lord. He knows how to reward everyone

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way. -Clary, pg.46-

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

You just have to believe in a corporate pulse.