Every accepted public quote

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

“I wasn't born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth.”

“If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that mea...”

“Do you know why average men can live out thire lives and die without accoplishing anything ? First off, because they lack imagination ..They never find anything more valuable than thier own...”

“I don't know a lot of things, but the one thing I do know is that I don't know a lot of things.”

“I've never seen anyone's life get better by complaining about reality, I've seen it get better by accepting reality as it is and then making personal decisions to make it better.”

“I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.”

“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.”

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vita...”

“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.”

“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from...”

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”

“It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.”

“The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what g...”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”

“Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.”

“It is right that one must come so far to see the world as it is meant to be.”

“Open your mind before your mouth”

“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.”

“Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.”

“You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.”

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”

“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is...”

“Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whethe...”

“Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.”

“If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens pe...”

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”

“I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.”

“Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.”

“We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted....”

“I don't need to publish to make a living.”

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”

“We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But w...”

“The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.”

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

“I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.”

“I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.”

“Everywhere I go, you catch up to me. Everywhere I run, I keep seeing you. Every time, you happen to me, all over again.”

“Friends are the sunshine of life.”

“Authors. We write to pretend we're not crazy for talking to ourselves.”

“The most foolish thing I've ever done related to money was spend too much of my life worrying about whether I had enough or didn't have enough, I always felt I never had enough. I cheated my...”

“If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.”

“God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.”

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I mi...”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.”