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

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

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.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

I think he could handle being used. It would be good for him. He's having trouble sleeping.

The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

She was by nature a sunny soul

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.