You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.

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.

By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Life is all about experiencing the good and the bad part of life. Good part gives you good memories and bad part teaches you good lessons in your life.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.