The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

I just want to serve Colombia.

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

A lot of ppl are making more money than they ever had nowadays - so when they get their flat they can, they always find themselves with an extra room.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.