There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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