I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.