It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

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 am blessed out! I make time for joy every day. I commit to seeking healthy pleasure and reveling in it.

The best part of traveling is finding yourself.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.