Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.
A man can never have too many friends.
The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.
People like us can't afford to be surprised, Sarah. We don't have the luxury of making mistakes or being caught unaware. We have to sense who's on the other side of the door before they knock, and we...
Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.
A death sentence was a death sentence, no matter how carefully it was worded.
A cautious revolutionary? You're not going to get anywhere like that.
You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.
They're fucking crosses. Just stick them in the ground. If there's a heaven they're already there. If not… it doesn't matter if the crosses are nice or not.
In terms of game theory, the opposite of a failed tactic is not necessarily success.
I don't try to be perfect. It's the perfect ones that attract suspicion.
Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.
A falling star was a failed star, a cinder burning in the atmosphere.
You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.
Time always won the race.
It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.
God didn't play games. He wasn't a co-conspirator. God either hit you hard and fast, and that was that, or he sat back and watched things spool out, laughing all the way out.
A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.
Plan for the day when all your plans fail, when those you trust betray you, when your certainty cracks like a rotten egg and you are alone in the storm.
No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.