Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

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.

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

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.

Dangerous Are the ways of love ….Baby dangerous When you can’t get enough …Lonely nights are spent in vain

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

What is deeper is warmer. When you’re looking for what is deeper, add warmth.

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.