“English was my favorite subject.”

Math just wasn’t my favorite. I didn’t get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That’s why I think I was turned off to it.

Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I’ve gotten older, I think there’s a lot more relation to math.

Ask anyone battling health issues – most especially, issues that could have been avoided.

I don’t need to overeat to feel satisfied. I cook with healthy oils (olive, coconut) and stay away as much as possible from overly processed foods. When I do indulge, I enjoy it. For that moment. And then I balance it with exercise.

Inspiration comes from so many things that it’s hard to define what that is or when it happens.

Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living

Nothing I can be faced with that I won’t grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

I try not to overeat (which is my biggest problem), and I find that when I’m eating quality foods from good sources,

Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome.

It’s hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health.

They will both let you know when you’re doing things the right way for you. And when you’re not. You just need to be honest with yourself and listen to what they’re saying.

I’m definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That’s as uncomfortable as it gets!

I think I’m a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I’m curious.

I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.

I’m not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they’ve influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.