If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

I am happiest when I am alone.

I am a woman above everything else.

One should always dress like a marble column.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Pearls are always appropriate.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

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

For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today, I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen because then she never gets out of there.

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