"My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked."

"Every family is dysfunctional."

"Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong."

"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre."

"We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society."

"I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals."

"I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America."

"Wisdom principle 11 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 74."