Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?