I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Power wears out those who do not have it.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals