I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

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.

Don't hide in the trees when you know that tigers can climb.

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

I finished a marathon.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.