I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.

I’m a guy who doesn’t dwell on stuff. I let things roll off my shoulders.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

Increase calls for review, check-up, control, and analysis.

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark