One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

Without challenges, there would be no opportunity to evolve.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

The first day of school is bullshit

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.