Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Night was running ahead of itself.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.

Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores.

The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

To be the World Champion in 1981 was a huge honour.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.