Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do?Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn’t they just be the same confused people they were before they died?

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale.

You've got to respond to the fans, and play well, or people will jump on you. They'll read something and jump on you.