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“America is not the world.”
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“What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.”
Source : "Ricky Martin says he's 'a fortunate homosexual man'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2010.
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“You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke”
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“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”
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“Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.”
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“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.”
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“As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.”
Source : Diego Rivera (1960). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Courier Corporation
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“Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.”