All is well... That's my new philosophy.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping, And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.

... once you start demonizing groups of people, when you make them the other, you can justify doing just about anything you want to the, can't you? Look at history if you don't believe me.

Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.

The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says open ethnicity.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.