Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

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.

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

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

I dont want a broken heart because Ill lose the pieces.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5.