Jodi Picoult Quotes

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

In this world, there's even room for quality.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.