Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

The worstis when people - knowingly or not -carry prison inside thems

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

To live in God is death; to die in God is life.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.