This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.

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.

To be successful at anything, it takes hard work, discipline, dedication, and a burning desire to be the best.

One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.