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

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.

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.

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

I'll write while I'm breathing.

I've changed so much. Look at me! I'm eating scones on a bed with a pirate!

Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp.

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

We are addicted to being the way we are

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.