We are all gathered to the same fold.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

As for this," Magnus said sliding the stele into Jace's jeans pocket, "keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter." - 219

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.

We fear circumstances so much because we fear God so little.

I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet.