One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

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.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.