When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very important to you.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.

The horse is a mirror to your soul... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.

Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

Take care of things, and they will take care of you.

Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.