Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.

If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.

We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.