The future teaches you to be alone. The present to be afraid and cold.
Mistakes are forgiven, when men at least try to right their wrongs.
History’s greatest catastrophes have been brought about by people trying to make the world a better place too quickly...
Isn’t it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person – and what they have?
When power calls you, you come. But power itself is a fragile trick of perception.
Just because it’s in your head doesn’t mean you have to say it.
It’s better to know you’re being played than to be played without knowing it.
The best liars are candid.
No one wants to talk about how frightened they are. But only frightened people are really dangerous — and plenty of them are dangerous.
I think all of us at some point imagine what our lives might have been had we been something else.