They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

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.

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

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.

One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests solely in the gullibility of its recipient...

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose