If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

I learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.

Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

I'm just at the beginning of my career and because of that I don't consider myself a star.

You!” she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.