Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.

Acceptance is not submission it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.