He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain."To Die for One's Country is Glorious, " p. 131

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.