We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

There is no rose without thorns.

Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.

How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

Music does not have a race or a disposition! ... Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language...Music surpasses all distinctions between people.

... and her name was Freedom.

Experience is everything.

To feel alone is to be alone.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.