It is always darkest before the dawn.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

Don't sleep in the subway, darling.

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?