We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Goals want to realize themselves.

Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

I won't talk about who I'm dating. Because it's dumb. It leads to nowhere good. I let everybody else in the media do that for me. It takes the responsibility off my shoulders!

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.