Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.

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

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Precaution is better than cure.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?