“lies are curses you place on yourself.”

“Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.”

“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

“When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.”

“Values that are expressed but that don't change behavior are not really values, they are lies that you tell yourself.”

“This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.”

“You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.”

“But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”

“One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.”