What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Blessed are the ones who bless others with time

i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell

A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.