It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

In a dependent relationship, the protégé can always control the protector by threatening to collapse.

Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?

You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always be tenuous. There is always the possibility the peregrine will rediscover the strength of his heart.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.