The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

I did wonder if I'd have cause to rue my action. Now I believe it can safely be filed under Necessary Regrets.

...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.

Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.

I've been able to do a lot of things a lot of people haven't, that other people would dream of. I've been able to live out my fantasies, and dreams! So, I'm real lucky.

Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

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