In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

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.

Personal power depends on the power of imagination

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure...

Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people.

What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.