At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

Your future begins with your next thought.

We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'"Oh my God, " Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.

Worry divides the mind.

Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.