The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

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.

We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

To think is to destroy.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.