I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

The sacred soul is full of God's spirit.

Success doesn't come to you walking, you should move towards it

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

You must ask for what you really want.