Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

You still have a very promising shot at winning, but the only thing left is you making up your mind to take it.

Be Strong, Have Faith and Always Smile .

We fear the thing we want the most.

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.