The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea..

Always distance yourself from gossip, because it is the worst form of self-disruption.

People do not change, only expression and perception changes.

There are no shortcuts to success.

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.

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.

Find your passion... then it is no longer work!

The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.