Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you.

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

We very often confuse personality with leadership.