"Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun."

"Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive."

"Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me."

"As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate."

"It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war."

"There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also."

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."

"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."