Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.