Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

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.

Every man has a need to be great at something

God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".R. Alan Woods [2012]

Life is beautiful mess...and I am tangled...though I am the spider but a stupid one. Cheap I am by name, views and actions.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice.

Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.