“[T]here are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.”

“The intention of the Chinese government taking away our freedom is so obvious that we know, if we don't fight, we will lose everything...When you lose the freedom, you lose everything. What do you have?”

“When I'm content with nothing is when I'm content with everything.”

“Mr. Nixon, the [late] Vice-President of the U. S. A., has said that the time to lose one's temper is when it is deliberate, whilst another wiseacre has stated, "Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."”

“There are still many people who don't realize that humans are slowly losing their privacy. The time has come when people can no longer hide things. The walls have ears and they can hear everything we whisper. So be careful what you do or say.”

“When one has a religious experience, what is “true” is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality.”

“The noblest mind the best contentment has.”

“I think an interpreter has to sing everything, to sing what wants to sing. It cannot be with that foolishness, that here in Brazil we face this thing that when one records a song, later no one can rerecord it. This is madness, absurd. Music doesn't have an owner, the music doesn´t belong to anyone.
- Comment on the excessive protectionism of composers in Brazil. Domingão do Faustão Program, Rede Globo, 2003”

“[T]here are women who are for all your "times of life."”

“I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?”