After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknownEnter within. Stay withoutOn pain of death, we cast you out.

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

Function influence but does not dictate form

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .