Life is already too short to waste on speed.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No, " [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.