The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.

The impact of relationships can be subtle yet powerful. Make a conscious effort to them choose wisely.

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go.