The hungry lion hides its claws.
The difference between new money and old money. Old money’s motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money’s motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.
With all the myriad mysteries of the world to explore, why would anyone want to waste a lifetime accumulating wealth to pile on more wealth, gathering power that was beyond power?
Time is like sand in an hourglass. It runs out.
There were only two kinds of women in the world—nice girls and wh**es—and a nice girl did not let a man touch her unless she was married to him.
The name of the game was to win, and you won by beating everyone else.
The giving and taking of love is too beautiful to be evil.
The future was clay, to be molded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.
That’s the difference between the rich and the poor. The poor walk; the rich ride in carriages.
Sometimes to some people violence provides a necessary outlet, an emotional release.
Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom.
Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing.