Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Never do anything local or insignificant

Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion.

Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.