I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.

Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?" "Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.