That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

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.

May the Lord direct your life’s journey.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

Business money is limitless.

I don't allow challenges to trip me up.