I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I really don't like talking about diets.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.

I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot.

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.