“It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ”

“Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.”

“If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.”

“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”

“All the world loves a good loser.”

“...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...”

“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”

“Prim, let go," I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don't want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as...”

“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.”

“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”

“When we realize that we are not the mind, we do not exist as a labled person. We also experience all circus around us does not exist either.”

“Universe is nothing, but human thought.”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.”