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.

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.

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.

My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

Intellect--brain force.

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.