I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

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.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

The blind see what they want to see.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

This one is for the boys with the boomin system Top down AC with the coolin system

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.