Now I know why tigers eat their young.

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.

Man-eaters are finally shot dead.

You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy.

I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

There's no doctor like meat and drink.