I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

You have such faith, ” he tells me. “Let it be bigger than your fears.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

Time has wings it is flying but it has no shape, no colour, no dimension so it is invisible.

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?