Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

Your laughter : the drugThat cures my emotional infection

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse

All great and precious things are lonely.

If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or bad — then they don’t love you. They just don’t. Writers fall in love with the people we find inspiring.

Faith is not a one-time act. It’s a way of life.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)

You're my favorite mistake