Words worth keeping

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.