Jodi Picoult Quotes

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

But we Americans are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

We're all people at the end of the day.

So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

In every man there is something of all men.