I am proud to be Latino.

I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.

So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.

Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.