A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

With all our reasons for living. Through our love and laughter, there's an unmistakable truth. The most valuable love in the world is a healthy relationship with our children.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want

I'm not a disciplined writer.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.