The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.

Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.

Pity womankind, but never a woman.

My eyes are my greatest sin.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into the darkness that claimed his soul.

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

Hard rain falls in every season. Sometimes it can beat you down; you have to try to learn how to take sustenance from it to grow.