“Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.”

“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”

“We can begin anywhere—everywhere. "Let there be peace," says a bumper sticker, "and let it begin with me." Let there be health, learning, relationship, right uses of power, meaningful work.... Let there be transformation, and let it begin with me.”

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”

“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”

“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

“The questions are just beginning. The arenas have been completely destroyed, the memorials built, there are no more Hunger Games. But they teach about them at school, and the girl knows we played a role in them. The boy will know in a few years.”

“Let's begin by affirming that poetry has died.”

“Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.”