You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself

The end of love looks like the beginning of war

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.

Time is not important, but art is.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

The downside to celebrity is when you make it a 24 hour thing. I think celebrity is about turning it on and turning it off.

Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.