Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow.

Kisses are like cardiograms. They reveal how serious the illness is.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.

The prize of all too precious you.