I love to talk about sports. I love sports it's just something that's in my nature.

I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.

As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

I could never date a guy with a pet snake.

Karate is many things, but mainly it's about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, rhythm of life, progress . . .

Worldliness is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence permeating the whole of life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.