Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

With the increasing price levels, the farmers are benefiting. Dal, atta, vegetables have all become expensive. I am happy with this price rise. The more the prices rise the better it is for farmers

And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

I wanted to show that your health is more important than your hair.

Excellence nourishes the soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.