I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention

There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

The kingdom of God is his domain and territory where God rules as king

Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.

Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.