Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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.

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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