There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

Elena rolled her eyes. "Oh, please, Guy. Everything immortal has to be killed somehow. I mean, you can't survive if they cut off your head.""Want to give it try?

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.