There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

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.

Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.