Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

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.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.