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

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.

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

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

Fear is like an illusion of a dangerous wall between you and your goal.

When thinking won't cure fear action will.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

You can't bond with a male until you set your parents free.

Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.