Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

One cannot rest except after steady practice.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off.