I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

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.

Humans are spiritual beings in physical form

Do not live WITH what you had done...Live FOR what you have to do.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

(Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. ‘Member me? (Syn)