Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

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.

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 have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

The human Soul will only find its Light, when the Ego gives its permission.

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.