Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.