Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

The prime rule of reality is that we must become in our lives what we choose to experience in the world.

I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.