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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.