Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Peace means nothing without freedom.

Think before you speak…… think before you don’t.

Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way. -Clary, pg.46-

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.