...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

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.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose.

You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.