Suffering is a form of knowledge. It tells us what is wrong with our world.

If you are not thinking differently, you are not exercising your freedom.

Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

I was quite lucky: although my dad worked a lot, whenever he was free, he would play sports with me and my brother, and I can't wait to do that with my child.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

He saved your life,” Clary pointed out. “Details,” said Simon dismissively.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.