Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.

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.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.