My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

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.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.