You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.

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.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.