"We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation.""

“The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.”

“Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.”

“We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.”

“It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.142, Open Road Media

“For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the language we chose to use, in what we enjoyed. She helped me see and appreciate a lot both about myself and my loved ones.”

Source : "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

“I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.”

“For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.”

Source : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.11

“Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!”