Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with.

Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.

Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst of the lot are those who break down what others have built.

It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it.

Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

Only the living can learn from their mistakes.

Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.

If traveling was free, you'd never see me again.

Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

I am as constant as a northern star

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

Solitude was corrupting me.