As women, we need to embrace our bodies and be confident with who we are.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

Live your life to the fullest.

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.