Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

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.

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.

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

If peace is our ultimate goal, love should be our only weapon.

Never pursue happiness, just create it inside you.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.