I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.

Mark my words, Princess,” Loki said. “One day, you’ll be madly in love with me.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.

When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.

My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

I heard this when I was in the Air Force: “There’s never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.

Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.

In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.

A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.