There’s no amount of money that frees you from being a person.[to Bobby]
The vultures and the hyenas always share the carcass meal.
The one thing you will never regret spending money or time on is a great experience.
The kamikaze get a bad name because everyone wants to focus on the suicide. But what they miss out on is the purity of the commitment.
The best way to peace is through overwhelming force.
The best education, though, is living it. Don’t imagine what it’s like to run two billion. Or five. Or ten. Just f***ing run it.[to John]
That’s the wonderful thing about family. It lives and breathes. It never contracts. Only expands.
That’s the thing about dead men. They never actually know it. But everyone else does.
That’s the problem with the real world, real people. We’re not computers with the software directing the hardware. We’re not rational actors.
Sometimes you just gotta trust people to be who they are.
Sometimes staying too long is a bigger risk than leaving too soon. There’s never a right time to make a big change.
Something I learned from the old Westerns: If you’re gonna make a show of strength, you wanna be sure you’re the real strongman in the room.
