I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

I don't know if I'm brave.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

I want to do everything with you

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Being loved keeps you young.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.