Danger is an aphrodisiac.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

Trust is won not given.

Death strips all men of dignity.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Living is a hazardous profession.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself.