The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

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.

Truth falls from the heavens like rain, gently carving many channels in the earth. Your truth may be different from my own, yet both are still true.

Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.