If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

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.

That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.

If you are always worried about the outcomes of your future, then it's time to surround yourself with the right people who would push you harder than you have ever pushed yourself.

God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.

The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.

This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.