The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.

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.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.