New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.

To my editors, I graciously thank you. I now know “is” and “was” aren't the same thing. It's the periods and commas that got me. Can't see the darn things.

Jake, anyway, and somehow that seemed far, far worse. The couldn’t

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.