I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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.

Success is only possible to those whose hearts are willing and ready to embrace hard work

Coaches need to have a vision.

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.