“I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work wi...” — Jose Saramago Quote

“I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.”

“Cuidado, caín, hablas demasiado, el señor está oyéndote y tarde o temprano te castigará, El señor no oye, el señor es sordo, por todas partes se le alzan súplicas, son los pobres, los infelices, los desgraciados, todos implorándole el remedio que el mundo les niega, y el señor les da la espalda.”

“Quien planta un árbol tampoco sabe si acabará ahorcándose en él”

“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”

“I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.”

“The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.”

“As an athlete, I'm always thinking about habits and goals and how to achieve the things I want to achieve.”

“I think parenthood brought a certain change of habits in my daily days.”

“Our seas do have fish in them. We have to change our eating habits, the type of fish we tend to go for. Pollack is fine, that type of thing.”

“Whether we win 60 games or not, you build your habits back and get better that way. It may not be 60 wins, but you get better as a team.”

“Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.”