Without ambition, no goal can be met.

What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail?

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.

Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.