"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them."

“The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.”

Source : "Obama to Hispanics on immigrants: I see my kids", www.foxnews.com. June 22, 2012.

“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”

“The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.”

Source : "Pop Chronicles", Show 23, digital.library.unt.edu. May 02, 1968.

“There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.”

“Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.”

“I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.”

“I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.”

“I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.”