We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

An effective life is not determined by how long you lived

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

The fans appreciate the success the young guys are having now because they know the game is clean, that they've finally got rid of all the performance-enhancing drug issues.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?

God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.