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

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.

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.

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.

Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

Stupid people are dangerous.