Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

I was always responsible for everything in my campaign.