Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

The star-crossed lovers

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

The Sun can rise anytime in your dreams. And there night may fall anytime as well.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.

The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.

I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.