I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

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.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.