A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

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.

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.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

The worst part about people with bad personalities is they don't know it.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

I like to know where the camera is.

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.