Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

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.

Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

You give because the love of God has been poured into your heart, not to satisfy the law.

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.

If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.