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.

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.

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.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!

I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.