I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

If you have Lost something, there's always something Coming, just live by to see it.

No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong artsMake of so noble individual partsOne fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.

We must not build up ourselves at the expense of others.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

One of the fans had a poster that said, 'I'm a Peeta-file. That was probably the best one.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.