Fernando Pessoa

There are ships sailing to my ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

The basis of peace should be a world federation.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.