Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before.

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.