“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough”

“If people stop having secrets they stop having power.”

“But all people have secrets. Part of being human is having secrets, and being curious about other people's secrets. Dirty fetishes and debilitating fascinations and shameful defeats and ill-begotten triumphs, humiliating selfishness and repulsive inhumanity. The horrible things that people have thought and done, the lowest points in their lives.”

“A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.”

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”