Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Tell my father I wish to be his son.

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.

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.

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

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.