Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.

I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

ALWAYS chose the road less taken.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.