There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

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.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

There's one best thing about childhood our genuine smile...

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

There are a lot of millionaires being created in China. We should all be seeking that business, and I think there's enough to go around.