And it takes so much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

The star-crossed lovers

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.

I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.