TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

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.

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

A man without mind brings ecstasy!

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

Some of the things I'm doing probably aren't popular but they're necessary for security and for other reasons.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.