To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Let the world change you and you can change the world

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stories anymore.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.