“If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.”

“Look, the bad guy is the bad guy, I don't care what color he is, when you go to war, if you know the enemy and the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, then you shoot at red. … You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy and the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of color or people of Hispanic origin.”

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”

“Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God.”

“You shook his hand?" Adrian asked incredulously
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“With all that red-hot passion, it’s a wonder you guys can stay away from each other”

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

“It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existence!”

“Whoever warns you against sins and vices is like the one who gives you good tidings.”

“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”