Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

State is the nation socially organized.

In politics, what appears is.

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

I know what I want, and where to go.

Life is a dance of nature.

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.

I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?