The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.

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.

Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.

Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world.

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

Dhoni is the best captain India ever had

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.