After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.