My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

There's so much information on the internet. But people don't need more information, they need 'aha moments,' they need awareness, they need things that actually shift and change them.

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.