This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

Let passion drive your profession.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.