Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

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.

Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.

I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!

Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.