To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with you will not do much.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me . . . no one can do that.

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.