Saramago

"Motivation is not inspiration; it is discipline."

"Health is not merely the absence of disease, but presence of vitality."

"Beauty is in the eyes of those who dare to look."

"Power obtained through force is always temporary."

"Leadership without humility is narcissism."

"War begins in the hearts of those who refuse dialogue."

"Hope is an act of defiance against despair."

"Gratitude opens the doors that complaint keeps locked."

"Friendship is the shadow of love that doesn't demand exclusivity."

"Family is the first government we serve."

"The science of the future will be shaped by the ethics of today."

"Faith is believing what cannot be seen but can be felt."

"Perseverance is the slow accumulation of small victories."

"We can distinguish the trees, and the leaves on the trees, and the veins on the leaves, but we cannot see the forest, we are inside the forest."

"All of us are mad, just in different ways, and it's this difference that saves us from absolute madness."

"The only true voyage of discovery would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another."

"Blindness is the best metaphor for human condition."

"We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived."

"Literature should be a ladder toward higher understanding, not a refuge from it."

"A man's character is determined not by how he lives but by what he believes in."

"The worst blindness is not to want to see."

"Words are like money that have lost their value through excessive use."

"To be a writer is to feel called to this work as a sacred obligation."

"We spend our lives waiting for the great moment that will give meaning to everything."

"History does not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes with itself."

"The human being is a complex creature capable of both great kindness and unspeakable cruelty."

"Art is not decoration for your apartment. It is war."

"I am condemned to write, as a man is condemned to live."

"What we call civilisation is built upon a foundation of human suffering."

"Music touches our hearts in ways that words never can."