what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.

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.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."