Everybody is going to have a point in their life when they can’t see any brightness at the end of the tunnel…but there always is…you just have to keep on fighting.

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them...

I had to go through failures in order to learn how to do it.

By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.