I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

Mirth is God's medicine.

I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.