Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

Things never are as bad as they seem.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.