“There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.”

As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.

Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.

For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.

It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.

I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.

I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

It has been a process ever since and I am now a big advocate in the message that we are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.

Our thought is our big enemy, guided by ego that walks on evil path.

I’m a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life – joyfully.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.

May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

Being Latina to me is living your life like it’s a big old fiesta!