More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.