Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I have a hyper personality.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

If you are open to life’s lessons and do not feed on beliefs and prejudices, you are like a blank sheet of paper on which God writes his messages to you in holy ink.

We live by what we get

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.

It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.