If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.

You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.

People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.