Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

what is Thomas didn't run, What if Harry didn't survive, what if Percy didn't fight, what if Tris didn't jump, what if Katniss didn't volunteer, What if Hazel didn't love

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved.