The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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.

When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small?

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.