Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

Even the strongest man needs friends.

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.