Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

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.

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

Michele Bachmann told reporters that she will lead the nation in prayer if she is elected president. You know if she is elected president, we all better be praying. She doesn't have to lead us.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

Do you know how to wrap a leg?" "I was born wrapping legs," I say stiffly, because I'm insulted. "Must've been a challenging delivery," Sean notes.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.