"There for awhile I thought the jig was up. I told myself: this is act one of the cage story. Caulaincourt had better start learning to growl like a bear."

"My mistresses do not in the least engage my feelings. Power is my mistress."

"You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them."

"The strong man is the one who can intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

"The human race is governed by its imagination."