Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.
Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.
Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.
Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.
I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.