High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

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

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.