I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

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.

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell, " Callie whispered, blinking."More or less, " Arriane said

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.