The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

There's always something coming. Good or bad, it's going to force you to grow.

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.