I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Source Unknown

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

Edwin Markham

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

Abraham Lincoln

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Muhammad Ali

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

William Shakespeare

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

Stanislav Grof

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.

Simone Weil

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Stanislav Grof

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Terence McKenna

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Demetri Martin