"I look at the lyrics, and if that's something honest for me at the moment, I'll sing it."

“Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”

“With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.”

“People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.”

Source : Leah Hager Cohen (2013). “I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)”, p.9, Penguin

“I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.”

“In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.”

“Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”

“I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.”