I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.

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.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

I'm weird about fruity desserts like lemony, acidic, zesty... I don't like lemon things and orange things, really.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.