The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

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.

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

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.

Silence - best answer for all the questions does certainly be, Your smile - best reaction to all the life’s situations positively.[228] - 4 (Thoughts)

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.