You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

There is no rose without thorns.

We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

Music does not have a race or a disposition! ... Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language...Music surpasses all distinctions between people.

... and her name was Freedom.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

Do not ask intelligent rich people what car they driver, but what books they read.

This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away.

Every thought you have has an energy that will either strengthen or weaken you.