When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.

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.

Snowflake’s journey is a metaphor. A metaphor for what, exactly?I have no freaking clue.

Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.

The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity

[Discipline i]t’s the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you’ve started.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

There’s something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.