There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

I'm always learning new ways to improve my game from both players older and younger than me.

Assad is a bad guy, but you may very well end up with worse than Assad.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there.' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.