It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

Success is the child of audacity.

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either

I will always love the false image I had of you.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

I take Peeta's face in my hands. "Don't worry. I'll see you at midnight.