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.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

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.