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 …

- Ingrid Betancourt

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 enem…

- Ingrid Betancourt

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 …

- Ingrid Betancourt

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

- Ingrid Betancourt

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

- Ingrid Betancourt

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…

- Ingrid Betancourt

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

- Ingrid Betancourt

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

- Ingrid Betancourt

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

- Ingrid Betancourt