In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful...I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.

If you do good, you will have some enemies. If you do bad, a lot of people will hate you. Apparently, you are better of with doing good and being at peace with your inner-self.

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

The grand instructor, time.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

Love that cares, listens.

Life is our dictionary.

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.