I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

Latinos have not historically been a culture that unites easily. We're very factioned - you have your Mexican Americans, your Puerto Ricans, your Cuban Americans, your Central Americans - and sometimes we focus on the differences more than the commonalities.

A marriage is a partnership.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying.