I have built my organization upon fear.

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.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.