True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

Actually learning ancient Greek was a brilliant practice of mine because you'd sit there and you'd read a sentence and sometimes it would take you a day, an entire day to figure out one sentence. But it really trains you to be analytical, to think in a certain way to try and interpret what something means. So I've been thinking like that my whole life and then I love Machiavelli and I love thinking about politics that way. So it's sort of all that put together and then the good luck to meet a man who is sort of interested in the same thing.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.