A man doesn’t volunteer for a hitch in hell just so he can knock off one of the devils. - William Tenn

Size, power, numbers—since the beginning of time, those three have been trying to correlate with right and wrong. So far, they haven't succeeded."
Nodding, the Ambassador murmured, "Very true. But, on the other hand, they do exceedingly well with life and death.

He knew what the score was—and from here on out, he would be acting on what he knew rather than on what others told him.

Haven’t you ever heard it said that money isn’t everything, but that what it isn’t it can buy?