In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

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.

Be more concerned about your life's impact on the lives of others than your image.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

At crossroad, God is our guide post. He points the right path.

It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.