That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori