But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded Clary with mild interest, puffing gently on a fantastically large pipe as he did so. Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar. Magnus Bane

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

Peter Baynham

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Anne Bronte

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Corazon Aquino

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Benjamin Disraeli

If one party resolves to demand what the other resolves to refuse, the dispute can be determined only by arbitration; and between powers who have no common superior, there is no other arbitrator than the sword

Samuel Johnson

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

Jeff Foxworthy

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Oliver Goldsmith

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

Benjamin Carson

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Sydney Smiles

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Benjamin Franklin