“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

And nobody is winning the war inside me.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

Check what’s going on inside too.

Everything we look for outside is always inside.

If you’re beautiful inside it shows on the outside.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Things shift externally then it shift internally. After all, happiness is an inside job.