All empires are created of blood and fire.

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.

There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

There can only be one king.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

I'm a decent man who exports flowers.

People inspire you, or they drain you. PICK THEM WISELY.

Flies are the dead man's revenge.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards.

Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.