Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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.

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes?

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

Stay strong. Depression lies.