I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.

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.

Take my hands, ” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

What a tribute this is to art

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.