I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.

Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.