No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.

The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.

Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

How short life is for fools.

I believe in style, not fashion.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.