“Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.”

“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what youre up to.”

“Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”

“People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.”

“Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.”

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”

“I compete every moment, and my competition is only with myself.”

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What Ive learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders ones reality to the person to whom one lies, making tha...”

“Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

“Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadnt done anything wrong.”