Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.