"A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child."

-Dalinar in Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings

"We're not puppets on a string of DNA."

-Helen Fisher

"But among the First Men only a minority had ever been capable of wholehearted devotion. The great majority were by nature too much obsessed by private impulses."

-Olaf Stapledon in Last & First Men