When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

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.

Life is too short to complicate it.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.

When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.

Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?