A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those. It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.