The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.

God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!

I merged so completely with love, and was so fused, that I became Love and Love became me.