I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

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.

40Wednesday has been canceled due to a scheduling error.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

I've been in a lot of elections.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are