Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

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

Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.

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.

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