The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

I couldn't keep doing this to myself. One day, I was going to wake up and realize that, in my desperate escape from the pain in the present, I'd let the future pass me by.

Don’t let anyone trample on your dream, or let the river take you to its destination. Take the river to your own destination. When you find love, hold on to it.

The most important moments in life happen without an appointment.

Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he's been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.

Think of God not as a word, or a stranger, or as someone on high, waiting to judge and punish you. Think of Him as you would want to be thought of if you were God.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.

"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."