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.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

Only people who believe in themselves are able to do exploits

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

Experience is the byproduct of agony.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

A platform without the Holy Spirit is like land without a spring. If we gain our Promise Land without Living Water, it will become desolate.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.