in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

The level of success you will experience can be predicted by looking closely at the sacrifices you are willing to make.

You don't need a title to be a leader, and having a title doesn't make you one.

If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.