I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

Believe in yourself. And stop trying to convince others

Sometimes the king is a woman.

Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

Be mindful even if your mind is full

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.

After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.

The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.