We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

The essence of life change when we admire our teachers kindneess.

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.