England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

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.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

No - simple to pronounce, hard to say.

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.