Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion magazines.

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 driven by your dreams.

There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.