The life of spies is to know, not be known.

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

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

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

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

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.