This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.