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

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God ….

There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us w….

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!.

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

People need space to survive..

I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have..

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death..

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 sniveli….

If you believe what you say, words will become reality..

I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the w….

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your co….

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, ….

We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of….

Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things..

Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you….

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….

I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the….

For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back….

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the ric….

Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?.