Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

She believes in love, in destiny and she knows ...she feels her prince in her destiny. She just has to wait for the right time.....

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, ” Kirkland said.

If we keep seeking, we shall find the sacred land.

Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.