After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

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.

After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it made me win lots of enemies that didn't want me to just denounce what was happening.

I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.

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.