Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people".

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

The star-crossed lovers

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

Nothing takes you inside the soul of a human being like a musical does.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?