"I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom."

“Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.”

“Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.”

“There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.”

Source : "'Hunger Games' Producer Nina Jacobson on Movie Backstory; Firing from Disney (Q&A)". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 15, 2012.

“Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.”

“To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 03, 2013

“I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.”

“All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.  Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality.  That is a mistake.”

“Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.”