Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

If you believe what you say, words will become reality.

I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

O Lord grant us the grace for sacred rest

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again

Observable Fact: I don’t believe in magic.Observable Fact: We are magic.

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

Money is the by-product, it is not the purpose.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.