There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

You are taking things far too literally. Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

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

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while

Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.