What you really value is what you miss not what you have.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

Logic is neither a science nor an art but a dodge.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

Empower your dreams with deadlines.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.