The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

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.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.