Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

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.

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

The U.S. can no longer be the sheriff for the whole world. We can't be everywhere, and we can't always use military boots on the ground. We have to plan with people who have boots on the ground.

As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'