Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

Unity and victory are synonymous.

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake? I think you're a good person.

Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?

I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

That maybe you should make the most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you’re alive?

I'm looking forward to making a Super Bowl run in Atlanta every year.