You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

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.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

There were stars. They burned my eyes.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.