At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

The southerner talks music.

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.