Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.