The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Reality is inside the skull.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.

You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

I dream for a living.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.