I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

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.

Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they're doing, we're always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they're going to do.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.