“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t...

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous...

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”

“And so it goes...”

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

“Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words...

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

"You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“I am a part of all that I have met.”

“I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”