When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

No man knows he is young while he is young.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.