At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

E. M. Forster

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Elizabeth Gilbert

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Albert Einstein

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Will Rogers

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Oscar Wilde

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Richard Henry Stoddard

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Dolly Parton

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

Cassandra Clare

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Tom Clancy