I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

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.

To find yourself again and again, get lost in true love.

A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.