Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

The prayer of a trained theurgist is like the majestic flow of a large river but an ignorant and weak person can produce only something similar to an irregular trickle from a half-clogged tap.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope, trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.

When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

Acting is my passion and Chelsea FC is my hobby.