"As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging."

“I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.”

“The best part is not the biggest, it's the one that's most memorable.”

“Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else? The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!”

“When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.”

“The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

“Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.”

“Don't come home a failure.”

Source : Ty Cobb, William R. Cobb, Paul Dickson (2009). “My Twenty Years in Baseball”, p.21, Courier Corporation

“The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.”