I have the grace of providence to be poor.

The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

State is the nation socially organized.

In politics, what appears is.

Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

I know what I want, and where to go.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

What is right can never be impossible.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.