I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.