It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.

I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but absence also dulls the memory and then we tend to forget who we were missing in the first place.

It was really hard to stay positive. And that's normally a talent of mine.

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

Whoever will give sadaqa, his wealth will increase.

Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it.