Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.

You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me.

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I work best when people are here to puncture me