"I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes."

"You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover."

"People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope."

"When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins."

"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

"Kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."