Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

We've always created stuff to go beyond our Swedish borders. I think we've always wanted to be noticed - to be known outside of Sweden.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.