I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou

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I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet. – Sandra Cisneros

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I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin. – Sandra Cisneros

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better. — Mac Miller

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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

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I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity. – Sandra Cisneros

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ― Frederick Buechner

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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

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