My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur - Remplit tout le corps)

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.