Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.

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

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.

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

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.

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.