I consider myself a survivor more than anything else.

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.

You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

He's got to let go of you sometime.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.