We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Am I worthy in every respect of being imitated?

I can see how people work out to feel better.

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

I only think well when my mind is calm.

He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.