Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.

Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets.Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.

Cassandra Clare

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.

Henry Kissinger

The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Stephanie Mills

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Raymond Hull

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Calvin Coolidge

...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

George Orwell

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Jonathan Swift

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Cat Stevens