I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.

The key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.

I can remember walking on the moon.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.