Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

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.

Everything I learn to say or do because I love.

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.

I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.