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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

Life is too short not to live it up a little!

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in a matrix.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Those who walk with God always reach their destination.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.