The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

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.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.