. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

People are basically irritating. Myself included.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down.

Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

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