“In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”

“Oblige people never so often, and, if you deny them on a single point, they remember nothing but that refusal.”
Quamlibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt quod negatum est.

“The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.”

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”

“It's a clear decision. It's a decision we respect and it's the end of the Lisbon Treaty. The speculation that there will be a second bite at it -- there won't be.”

“It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.”

“Most people just don’t want to accept the reality of incompatibility. But refusing to accept incompatibility will lead you straight down the road to relationship hell.”

“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.”

“The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”