It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

I don’t understand philosophy

Alcohol makes the nobleman into a feeble man.

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.