Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

It doesn’t matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences.

Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

There is no mistake in nature.

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.