Edward James Olmos

“So say we all.”

“If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.”

“Education is the vaccine for violence.”

“The most difficult thing a person can do is to know themselves.”

“We are all born with a genius for something. The trick is to find it.”

“When you have a choice, you have a responsibility.”

“Art is the uniting of the subjective and the objective.”

“We're all here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”

“You can't have a syntax for a feeling.”

“There's only one race, the human race. And we are all members of it.”

“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”

“The moment you stop learning, you're dead.”

“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.”

“We have allowed our fears to drive us to attack our own people.”

“I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.”

“Culture is the cement that holds a society together.”