Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

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.

You know that you’re truly successful when you can afford to fail.

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back