People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

I don’t know how much you have lost faith in people

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.

I'm an avid biography reader.

It was like a bad movie except he didn’t actually twirl his mustache.” -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-

The only good dictator is a dead one.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.