I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

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.

If you don't steal time, time will loot you.

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

All our best heroes are losers

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.