Why is your heart racing Tris?

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.

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

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

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.

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

Time is man made - No woman would have ever invented time.

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.