His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

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.

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that fell down and died.

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.

We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.