Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
Resisting is worth doing.
I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.