There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

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.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.