I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back, " he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

Life is the space between our things.

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

We didn't get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.