“We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.”

If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

What I do is I remove my makeup every night, use a little bit of Vitamin C serum, and that’s it, pretty much. Of course, I use my 3D White products!

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature.

The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.

Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Gerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.

I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.