But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.

Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself.

All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.