Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Le bonheur est cette danse où l'on s'approche et l'on s'écarte sans se perdre. Il est même fait des larmes des longues séparations à condition que viennent les retrouvailles.

Love” is only a one syllable word but it’s the most powerful one mankind’s ever heard.

Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

hot pink looks cute on only janet which is MEEEEEEE!!!

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.