Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Big Brother is watching you.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.