The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.