In the beginning, everything was even money.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

You win some, you lose some, and you keep it to yourself.

As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.

Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

I am a lucky player; a powerful winning force surrounds me.

False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.

I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

To nourish your soul, see the beauty of nature and feel the love.

We are far, far stronger than our pain

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

Came up that's all me, stayed true that's all me, no help that's all me, all me for real

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.