The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.

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.

Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she’s high maintenance. Don’t confuse the two.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.