“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”

“You cannot define anything that is beyond your sight and imagination.”

“Your imagination is notoriously poor. Not everyone holds identical ambitions to your own!”

“It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it.”

“And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret — the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.”

“Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not. If your brother sin against you lay not hold of it by the handle of his injustice, for by that it may not be borne: but rather by this, that he is your brother, the comrade of your youth; and thus you will lay hold on it so that it may be borne.”

“Be proud, Frenchmen! Lift high your heads, Frenchmen! You are no longer anything, and this man is everything! He holds in his hand your intelligence, as a child holds a bird. Any day he pleases, he can strangle the genius of France.”

“When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.”

“Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.”

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”