But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate..
Was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naïve.
There is no absolute truth, there is only the interpretation of truth.
That there must be a cure for every disease. Health is natural, disease is unnatural.
When you’re trying to hide something,’ Paul Martin advised, ‘always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you’re doing anything wrong.
There should be a thirteenth commandment: Thou shall not abandon those who love you.
There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil – but, by God, they w...
The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.
She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I’ll have power. No one wil...
Peace is a simple word, but it has a lot of ramifications. Peace doesn’t have any financial benefits. When there’s a war, countries buy billions of dollars’ worth of armaments that are made here in th...
No man is an island. What happens to one, happens to us all, for we are all made of clay and stardust. We share the same moments of time. The universal second hand starts its unforgiving sweep toward...
Newspapers and old magazines were piled everywhere. A door to an inner room burst open and Norman Z. Moody emerged. He was about five foot five and must have weighed three hundred pounds. He rolled as...
Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he’s going to get hungry.
My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I’m going to survive this.
Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing.
If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the f...
I think so. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Secrets can be a burden. I mean, once you know something, that’s it. You can never un-know it. You can never take that knowledge back. The innocenc...