“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.”

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

“I am a man” he told her, “and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”

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

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

“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.”

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