I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.

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.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.

Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

There's no one who has the right to judge you.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.