“There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.”
“...Tis the center to which all gravitates. One finds no rest elswhere than here. There may be other cities that please us for a while, but Rome alone completely satisfies. It becomes to all a second native land by predilection, and not by accident of birth alone.”
“There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation...”
“I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.”
“Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.”
“Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.”