"Don't spend $2 to dry clean a shirt. Instead, donate it to the Salvation Army. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. The next morning buy it back for seventy- five cents."

"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground."

"...Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life!"

"It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds."

"I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman."

"I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul."

"The ends must justify the means."

"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."

"With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels."

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything."