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.

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

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.

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.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.

Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.