The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

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.

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in.

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.