it's easier finding a virgin in a whorehouse than an honest politician.

You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

even found myself overlooking my own flaws, for the same reasons. I didn't need to try to be perfect or in control all the time. There really was no need to impress anyone.

Britain's Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens had lately reclassified herpes B into biohazard level 4, placing it in the elite company of Ebola, Marburg, and the virus that causes Crimean-Congo...

Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless - bastard - themed confetti. - - Isabelle Lightwood

Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a...

"Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive."

Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?

Now he looked at her sideways. You don't think I look like a Shadowhunter anymore? Do you want to? Cristina asked. I want to look like my family, Mark said. I cannot have the Blackthorn coloring, but...

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

"I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me."

Every time I annoy him he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house. Simon pointed at Jace.

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for...

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

What of Art? - It is a malady. - - Love? - An Illusion. - - Religion? - The fashionable substitute for Belief. - - You are a sceptic. - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. - - What are you? -...

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, and the most deadly. Eventually you will start to believe it. Finally it will come true. It came true for me. I am Grimalkin.

You have to dig down and find some part of you that doesn't care what people think, doesn't care if it's hard, doesn't care if it hurts, doesn't care if you have to momentarily experience humiliation,...

Seeking advice is a subtle way to invite someone to make a commitment to us.

Some part of me instinctively reached out, and in an odd way understood this pain, never imagining that I would someday look in the mirror and see their sadness and insanity in my own eyes.

The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking...

Look, I'm not ready for you," Min said. "I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you...

Nobody is perfect. Everyone who has ever loved someone has had to overlook something.

A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn't be sogrouchy in the morning.

If we now take a Kaluza - Klein theory defined in 4+N dimensions and then curl up N dimensions, we will find that the equations split into two pieces. The first piece is Einstein's usual equations,...

Without a scientist, there is no future. The handsome and attractive characters may earn society's admiration, but all the wonderful inventions related to the future are the result of the work of...

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D...

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing...