I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.