"As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated."
- Gloria Estefan
Awareness
"Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding."
- Gloria Estefan
Balance
"Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding."
- Gloria Estefan
Balance
"I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with...the world around them."
- Gloria Estefan
Compassion
"When you sing in English and Spanish, it’s two completely different forms of expression and . . . even the people who don’t speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish."
- Gloria Estefan
Creativity
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity