But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him the horror was that he might also be wrong.

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.

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.

Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest.

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

I don't feel alone with you. I feel like I have a family and a home again. You're my home. All of the dark shadows seem to disappear when we're together.

Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

I was raised by somebody with the perception of trying to allow me the space and show me the importance of knowing who I was and figuring out who I was and appreciating who I was.

Oh fine. I'll play nice with the pretty people.

I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.