Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.