The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

The Tao is near and people seek it far away.

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.