I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.

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.

...grief had no mercy, time limit, or expiration date.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.

I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.