Words worth keeping

What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.""There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.

To define is to limit.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.