The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.