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

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.

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.

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.

It's what you do every day that counts. Eating seven apples on Sunday won't keep the doctor away!

Life is like Alice's White Rabbit. He runs away and does not grab anything, but this is not important: what matters is to keep on pursuing him.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes

When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.