I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

We join the call from other States from our region

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

I think. I write. I am.

One definition of success is achieving what your haters don't want you to achieve. Them wanting you not to achieve it means it's worth a lot.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.