What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Great intellects are skeptical.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look..." Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. "Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please.

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

Only the dead have no troubles.

I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.