He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.

I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.