Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.
Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.
I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.
Beauty is really all about confidence. If you feel beautiful, then you are beautiful.
Listen, I'm not afraid of anything. I'm Colombian.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations
The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately. . . Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection.