Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him.

A wild thing may say wild things.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.