There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.

I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.