The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

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

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.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.