If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

With your own hands you can achieve much

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.