A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.

Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, " said Citizen."Oh my, " said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no human eyes should ever have.

Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

The results of your life reflect the standards you've set.