And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Reality is inside the skull.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

I used to think the opposite of control was chaos. But it's not. The opposite of control is surrender.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.