The soul has no gender.

Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

Stories are medicine.

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.