It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

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.

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

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.