“Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.”

From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.

You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

I’m more afraid of marriage than death.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.

I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.

A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.

I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.

It wasn’t a being-with-each-other kind of close. We all went our own ways.