Today, 10 quotes from Harold Robbins, US writer, who was born on this date in 1912. Among his best known books is The Carpetbaggers.
Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.
The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.
Every man has his price. For some it's money, for some it's women, for others glory. But the honest man you don't have to buy – he winds up costing you nothing.
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.
When I die, I don't want to leave any enemies, and I figure the only way to do that is to outlive them all.
People are not like a business. You can't buy and sell them like so much property. You can't lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
Power, sex, deceit, and wealth: the four ingredients to a successful story.
A man is a thousand parts, All of them other people.
Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
There is no sorrow that love does not precede.






