Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.

He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

Oh my god you're thicker than you look

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

Nothing comes without a price.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul