Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

For what reasons would you waste your time on earth?

Love ceases to be a Puzzle the Moment you find the Missing Piece.

Let weakness learn meekness.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.