My life is my testimony.

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.

Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves using force.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Let the losers worry about losin.