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

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.

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.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

The world is God's language to us.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.