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

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

"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."

"My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot."

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

"It is a radiant truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions."

"It is a quiet truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good."