Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

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.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

To be spirit led is better than been driven by guilt.

I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes, ' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.