When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking. I'm standing over their bodies, having a last look, leaving the room where they lie. But when I open the door to step out into the world, there's only a tremendous void. A pale grey nothingness that is all my future holds.
I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.
He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.
One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.