I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.

I always loved Ponch, man. It was so much fun to be him, to put on my duds and get on that bike and bust the bad guys and help out the kids. And get the babes.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

I never rode a motorcycle before CHiPs.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”)

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

An institution needs more than one person to survive.

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer.

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.