But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.