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.

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.

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.

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

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

The mother of goodwill is freewill, if untainted by evil.

If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes...

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.