The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.