My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

A good way to do econometrics is to look for good natural experiments and use statistical methods that can tidy up the confounding factors that Nature has not controlled for us.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.