Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Why are you such an asshat?" "An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.