Tony

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“In July 1958, Cristoforo Rubino became another informer to fall before testifying against Mafia drug traffickers. A week before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating Vito Genovese and other traffickers, Rubino was shot dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk.98”
― C. Alexander Hortis, Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York

“the strongest tendency of human nature was “the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
― Deirdre Bair, Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend

“One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Original