If hate motivates your life, you'll never know the meaning of true love

No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle

Good defeats evil most of the times, but sometimes in order to defeat the devil you must first become his disciple

If you let others influence you, they will also let you influence them. But if you're only trying to teach them something, and put your ideas into people's brains, you will never succeed.

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.