If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract.

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.