I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

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.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world.

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.