It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

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.

Hiking is like life...You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or fall.And then you miss all this.

...if a man’s thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company's mission.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.