"The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him."

“To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.”

“Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.”

“I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.”

“The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.”

“Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.313, Scholastic Inc.

“It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.”

“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”

“Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.”

Source : "Lecture 14: How to Operate". Keith Rabois' "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. November 6, 2014.