However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

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.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

Thought creates character.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!