"A literatura n?o tem fronteiras, ela transcende culturas e línguas."
"Words have weight, and stories have gravity."
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
The future belongs to those who can balance short-term performance with long-term vision.
The real reward in science is knowing that your work can save lives.