This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

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.

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

If you don’t believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

The more we thank God, the less we ask of him.

God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.