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.

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.

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.

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

We're being asked to bring our humanness along in holding that love and compassion for ourselves as we make our way through this energetic time of transformation.

I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.