“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

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.

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

Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.

The object of power is power.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.

Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

That was in the past – we’re in the future now.