You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

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.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

You can only inspire others when your heart is ready to sing the song of love.

If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline

The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.