No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.