Only fools prefer the past!

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, " she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state that makes you try to convince your heart of something your mind knows is a lie!

This book is visceral like how your small intestine is visceral

Plastic flowers last for hours

Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris