I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

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.

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.

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.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

The pain of patience is better the pleasure of sin.

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain.

Why? Why are they always wanting to kill Jews?

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

It doesn't feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I'm on an All-Star team everyday.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.