One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

Only the dead remember the truth.

You just can’t take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.

Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.