There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink 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.

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.

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.