In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.

Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.

There is nothing humble about this woman.

Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a mother, just a woman. They made me for power!

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?

Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.

Is the any spectacular moment like the angelic birth of a child?

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Not being boring is quite a challenge.

It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.